On the 12th, actor Yang Zichong (Yang Ziqing) received the Best Actress Award at the US Academy Awards. He referred to ‘women’ and left his acceptance speech, “Never give up.” However, a report in Korea poured cold water on this remark encouraging women.
On the 13th, ‘8 News’ broadcast a scene in which Yang Zichong said in his acceptance speech, “Don’t let others tell you that your prime is past.” However, the original text was different. Yang Zichong clearly said ‘And ladies’ at the outset. muted it and erased it from subtitles.
explained that “there was no intention to distort”, but was not free from criticism for erasing gender discourse. She has no choice but to wake up because she reluctantly erased ‘woman’ from her remarks asking women to be courageous and replaced it with ordinary encouragement.
These days, ‘gender’ is burdensome to bring up as a conversation topic. Like holiday politics, it’s easy to create a fuss. American public radio broadcast pointed out the Korean social reality in a similar context on the 14th. silver While introducing the report, it reported that “you can get a glimpse of the tense atmosphere surrounding gender discourse in Korea.” also noted that “many young women are uncomfortable speaking out for women’s rights in public (even among their peers) for fear of being labeled a radical feminist.”
Reporting lacked ‘gatekeeping’, the eclectic nature of the news production process. I mightn’t have expected the reaction of netizens saying, “I don’t understand why someone else edited his acceptance speech.” Yoon So-young, the standing representative of the Gyeongnam Women’s Association, criticized that the fact that the media erased the voices of certain people is a regression of democracy. Representative Yoon Sang-im said, “Recently, citizens have increased their awareness of and the ability to detect that the basic framework of democracy is gender equality,” she stressed that the media should be more sensitive as well as citizens’ maturity.
As the controversy continued, the video uploaded to the YouTube channel on the followingnoon of the 14th was changed. The official position said, “There was no intention of distorting it at all, so please consider it.”
/Reporter Kim Yeon-soo
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